01

In high school, the language teacher told us the story of Chu Shijian.

The teacher said: there is such a person, he has had his ups and downs in life, from the former king of tobacco fell, and once again rise as the king of orange.

Listening to the teacher, I wondered: how can this person do anything to be the king!

The teacher went on to say, this person is our local entrepreneurs in Yunnan, living not far from each other in Yuxi, he created a tobacco brand called Hongtashan.

I'm very familiar with Hongtashan cigarettes, as a native of Yunnan, every wedding and funeral, the big banquet, to the guests handed a Hongtashan cigarettes, it will be a host and guests are very dignified thing.

The teacher told the story of Chu orange that year, we are entering the senior high school, is about to face the decision to life's first exam.

Senior preparation is very tense, only Sunday will give half a day off, taking advantage of the free time, I went to the store outside the school to buy Chu orange.

Fruit stores, Chu orange is particularly conspicuous, bigger than the average head, more full, very recognizable. I took two, the boss weighed, the price shocked me, two oranges 15 dollars, more expensive than eating meat!

As it is to hear its name, I had to take out my few pocket money and buy it.

02

Every year when the college entrance exams, we can hear that some people can not withstand the kind of stressful preparation for the college entrance exams, chose to jump off a building and commit suicide.

The end of a life, perhaps there are a lot of body can not help, sorry, we are in a panic to prepare.

Later, into the university, read a lot of biographies about Chu old, is a comprehensive understanding of his life:

1928, Chu Shijian was born in Yuxi, Yunnan Province, before the birth of Chu's family had already had two sons, but they were unfortunate to have an acute illness died. So, Chu Shijian became the eldest son of the family, there are five siblings below.

The father is always out running transportation, the family life is quite rich. In his eyes, his mother, although thin, has a watery toughness.

Young children have seen the world

Chu's village next to the main line of the railroad, is the early years of the French command of the Chinese laborers laid down.

As a young boy, Chu Shijian often played on the tracks, the nearby station, managed by seven or eight Frenchmen. At a very young age, Chu Shijian already had this international insight.

He said, "When I saw the train as a child, I felt that I should grow up to live like that."

Chu Shijian, who grew up on the railroad tracks, is also considered to have received this "good thing" and "good life" at a very young age.

Doing everything to do the best

Chu Shijian 15 years old, his father was unfortunately killed by Japanese aircraft bombing. So, he dropped out of school to take over the family brewery, brewing all the procedures he is very familiar with, working 18 hours a day, often busy until the end of the day, the moon rises.

Chu Shijian in the baking of wine, very attentive to figure out, brewing the amount of wine than others, the quality is also much better.

Chu Shijian in recalling these things, he said, "I grew up like this, do everything well, down the river to take the fish to take more than others, baking wine I do not lose other. Do a thing, the force as much as spend, sloppy do force is spent in vain, serious always no fault."

In his later years, the old Chu, still fond of one thing: other people's home three pounds of pods baked a catty wine, I two and a half pounds can be, but also better than their quality.

We are willing to grasp, good thinking, such habits along with the Chu old life.

The heart lives in the matter, has its own biological clock

In the brewing, to go through many complex processes, the same deviation, will lead to the baked wine is inferior.

In the baking of wine to be steamed for more than ten hours, the pot has been water, stove has been on the fire, so you need to work all night.

Staying up all night is obviously impossible, but it is easy to oversleep, in case the water dries up and is roasted. Chu Shijian calculated that about every two hours, you have to re-add water to the pot.

So, after he added water and firewood, he slept at the stove for about two hours, and then must wake up to add water and firewood again.

"There is something in my heart, and I will not fail to wake up," he said.

Chu Shijian juvenile has this kind of heart power, is often difficult to have, he can simply control the body's biological clock, this skill is also accompanied by his life.

Every day to live a meaningful life

The death of his father, Chu Shijian very young to take care of the family's heavy burden. His mother was a traditional housewife, but insisted that Chu go to school.

He has tasted the hardships of life, he knows that the opportunity is hard to come by, study exceptionally hard, always the first grade, the famous scholar Wen Yiduo is his high school teacher.

Being in that war-torn era, everyone has to take care of themselves, and worse than that, personal destiny is just a product of the times, can not choose.

So, for Chu Shijian, "very young to know, to arrange each day, is responsible for life, think too much, there is no meaning."

This is perhaps the reason why Chinese civilization is always alive and well: it is better to die than to live, and the meaning of living is living itself!

All kinds of suffering, all constitute the Chu old life color. Old age, sickness, death, gathering and separation, in the very young, he has long been indifferent to it, the remaining is, how to live up to this life, how to pay the responsibility of life.

03

A person who is responsible for his own life, do everything to the top.

In 1979, Chu Shijian was transferred to Yuxi Cigarette Factory from the original Jashan Sugar Factory.

At that time, the Yuxi Cigarette Factory was in a state of disrepair. The production was low, the equipment was old, and the living conditions of the workers were extremely poor.

As soon as Chu Shijian took office, he started to reform, accustomed to and mud, do not do practical work of the leadership, Chu Shijian always do things sternly and decisively, clean and efficient.

He went through the equipment reform, technological reform, raw material reform, each of which, he is striving to do the best.

He was in front of the leadership, resolutely set down the "warrants", the loan to introduce first-class equipment, far ahead of other domestic counterparts.

So, at that time, the Yuxi Cigarette Factory's equipment lineup is the most luxurious in the country, which can be said to be bold and proud of their peers.

Under such equipment conditions, he single-handedly developed a small local cigarette factory into a tobacco giant that was then "No. 1 in Asia". In those days, the number one "ideal cigarette brand in mind" in the cigarette category was Hongtashan!

Chu old man in his 60s, sitting on the annual profit and tax generation of nearly 20 billion yuan of the Hongta empire.

04

There are always ups and downs in life, and the trough is more able to support the peak of the splendor.

In 1995, the year after he was honored as one of the "Top Ten Reformers", he was anonymously reported for corruption and bribery. His wife and daughter were jailed in Luoyang. In the same year, his daughter Chu Yingqun committed suicide in prison.

In 1999, at the age of 71, he was sentenced to life imprisonment and deprivation of political rights for economic problems.

Two years later, he was released on medical parole on the grounds that he was physically ill.

This 75-year-old man who has been through the vicissitudes of life, still with tenacious vitality in the mourning dungeon mountain second business, contracted 2,400 acres of barren mountains to grow oranges.

When Wang Shi rushed to Mourning Mountain, Chu Shijian and he talked about how to grow oranges and these things. When Wang Shi asked when to hang fruit, Chu Shijian said four years later. Wang Shi heart deep emotion, so old, but also so strong and open-minded!

In this regard, Wu Xiaobo also exclaimed: in our time, Chu Shijian's another value is that he used the tenacity of charisma out of the "Mourning Mountain".

Just as Nietzsche said, a great personality, can overcome the times on their own.

05

When I opened my cell phone and saw the news of Chu's death, my heart thumped, and I never thought that the real king would leave today.

The former King of Smoke, today's King of Orange, he did what he had to do to be King;

There are always ups and downs in life, the spirit of the end can be inherited, which is the spirit of Chu orange.

The year of my senior year, because of a story, the first time I tasted his Chu oranges, which is also like a seed, planted in my life.

Now, I have become a young man, but also want to go to the toss, to struggle, to achieve their own life goals, and more importantly, do not let this life in vain, to go to their own life to pay the responsibility.

People live a life, grass and trees in the fall; geese have left their voices, people have left their names. A person from the birth of that time, has been given a noble mission in life, the difference is that some people realize, some people escape.

05

Countless times read Chu Lao's biography, I gained the most is that he is extremely serious about everything, strive for excellence, do the best.

Once a young man went to him for advice, he cautioned, "Nowadays, young people are too anxious, can not calm down to do things."

Perhaps the young people nowadays are like this, lack of the kind of life attitude of pursuing extreme seriousness in everything, and therefore lack of a heart of reverence, always seeking to rush, greedy and greedy.

Countless people in the past in the life experience, will always say, life is not too serious. But life is ultimately to their own serious about themselves, you all escape the practice, will eventually become a retrograde journey forward.

We are that pilgrims, deserve to trek a more distant path, perhaps over the snow blockade of the Blue Mountains, perhaps through the shimmering sea of rage.

Life is ultimately to pay their own responsibility, the pursuit of the ultimate to practice. Not for the sage, then for the beast, as Chu Shijian with a life to prove: you seriously, the whole world will give way to you!